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Hard to find much high-level documentation on using TextFormat, but for some Python protobuf work I'm doing, the text format is much easier to read (and easier to organize into test vector files) in the protobuf text format, rather than manipulating the python objects manually. (I've changed message types/contents to generalize, please forgive any typos, this isn't the real code) my_envelope.proto (this file gets sent through protoc to generate Python code): message MyEnvelope { optional InnerMessage innerMessage = 1; } and I have a test message that I'd like to take from TextFormat and put into a protobuf message structure: innerMessage { value1: 100 value2: 200 } I have found that I can get it to work in python using from google.protobuf import text_format import my_envelope_pb2 my_msg = my_envelope_pb2.MyEnvelope() text_format.Merge(""" innerMessage { value1: 100 value2: 200 } """, my_msg) But I guess my question is this- is there a preferred way to do this? I had originally expected that ParseFromString would figure out that this was an ASCII representation and call Merge appropriately. i.e. I had expected the following would work import my_envelope_pb2 my_msg = my_envelope_pb2.MyEnvelope() my_msg.ParseFromString(""" inner { value1: 100 value2: 200 } """) but from the errors it appeared that ParseFromString only deals with string containers for binary format. Is this the case? Just trying to make sure I'm not calling Merge at an innapropriate/strange layer when some high-level call exists. As I mentioned, documentation on text format is somewhat thin, so this is the best I could piece together from API info. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en.